Management Improvements

Spring has arrived and this year we don’t have to wonder when the snowbanks will start getting smaller. Instead, much of the upper Midwest has been having unseasonably warm weather for three to four weeks and have been able to ditch the warm jackets and start working...

2021 Spring Crop Meetings

Central Iowa Agronomy & Supply usually puts on a spring meeting each year but due to Covid, things have changed in 2021. The Governor’s mandated meeting protocol and crowd size restriction for holding large meetings has prompted us to hold three small meetings in...

2021 Expectations

Who would have ever believed any weather forecaster that in the middle of the two- week long period of -15 to -20 below if they had predicted temps in the mid-40s to low 60s of higher in late Feb thru early March? There seemed to be a better chance of seeing 40 below...

Cropping Cautions

I spoke too soon. Just when I mentioned that the winter had been rather mild with no subzero temps that were dangerously cold, as in 15 to 25 below actual temps, one of those polar vortexes broke loose and made a break for the Mexican border and actually gots that far...

The Dog Days of Winter

Just when we were thinking that Mother Nature was going to let us slip thru the winter without much below zero weather, we are now entering the coldest stretch we have seen to far. The temps across much of the state will drop into the minus 10 to 12 F range. A friend...